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OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b
openai/gpt-oss-20b
gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 3.6B active parameters per forward pass, optimized for lower-latency inference and deployability on consumer or single-GPU hardware. The model is trained in OpenAI’s Harmony response format and supports reasoning level configuration, fine-tuning, and agentic capabilities including function calling, tool use, and structured outputs.
/ 1M tokens
/ 1M tokens
tokens
Limits
Context
131,072
tokens
Max output
32,768
25% of the context window
Parameters
20,914,757,184
Model facts
Author
OpenAI
Tokenizer
GPT
Modality
Text -> Text
License
Apache-2.0
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06-30
Created
Aug 5, 2025
Hugging Face
openai/gpt-oss-20b
Reasoning
Publication status
Modalities
Generation controls
Capability scores
Better than 22% of models compared
Creative tasks
Category performance
933 Elo
39.7% win
854 Elo
27.9% win